Match Officials for City v Wednesday

Last updated : 02 March 2006 By Michael Morris
This is the gentleman that sent off Darren Purse in the 2 - 0 home defeat by Plymouth on Boxing Day, thus giving Plymouth a penalty and ultimately the game.

His assistants are SJ Hollick and DJ Hine.

The City v Plymouth game is the only one Mr Probert has done for City in the three years he's been a league referee.

So far this season he's issued 108 yellow and 4 red cards in 31 games.

In his report at the time NigelBlues wrote of the award of Plymouth's penalty

"Enter referee Lee Probert to do what no player could do - help produce a goal and result. His lack of proper control helped produced the niggly tension on the pitch, the way he allowed defenders to jump over forwards and go unpunished seemed to affect Jerome and Ricketts more than their counterparts who were looking at breaks so how do you account for his penalty award and red card.

A simple low ball played into City's box, Chadwick and Purse tangled in a very innocuous looking fashion, both nudging at each other, both went down and the ball was cleared. In came Probert to award a penalty and seconds later, show Purse an instant red card. Not one Plymouth player appealed for a penalty but they got one, Purse didn't hang about as the red card was flashed but stormed down the tunnel kicking in the fourth official#s substitute board as he disappeared."